Security for Wireless Sensor Networks

Liu, Donggang; Ning, Peng

ISBN 10: 0387327231 / ISBN 13: 9780387327235

Published by Springer, New York, NY, 2006

About this Item

209 pp. Tightly bound. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. Published without dust jacket. NOTE: (1) The lower right corner of the front board is lightly bumped. (2) The word "DISCARDED" is neatly stamped on the front end paper. This is not an ex-library book. This copy is smyth sewn. Smyth sewing is a method of bookbinding where groups of folded pages (referred to as signatures) are stitched together using binder thread. Each folded signature is sewn together individually with multiple stitches and then joined with other signatures to create the complete book block. This is the traditional and best method of bookbinding.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Security for Wireless Sensor Networks
• Publisher: Springer, New York, NY
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0387327231
• ISBN 13: 9780387327235
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Published Without Dust Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Scholarly IV

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Synopsis

The recent technological advances have made it possible to deploy small, l- power, low-bandwidth, and multi-functional wireless sensor nodes to monitor and report the conditions and events in their local environments. A large collection of these sensor nodes can thus form a wireless sensor network in an ad hoc manner, creating a new type of information systems. Such sensor networks have recently emerged as an important means to study and interact with the physical world and have received a lot of attention due to their wide applications in military and civilian operations such as target tracking and data acquisition. However, in many of these applications, wireless sensor networks could be deployed in hostile environments where there are malicious attacks against the network. Providing security services in sensor networks, however, turns out to be a very challenging task. First, sensor nodes usually have limited resources such as storage, bandwidth, computation and energy. It is often undesirable to implement expensive algorithms (e. g. , frequent public key operations) on sensor nodes. Second, sensor nodes are usually deployed unattended and built without compromise prevention in mind. An attacker can easily capture and compromise a few sensor nodes without being noticed. When sensor nodes are compromised, the attacker can learn all the secrets stored on them and launch a variety of attacks. Thus, any security mechanism for sensor networks has to be resilient to compromised sensor nodes.

From the Back Cover

Wireless sensor networks have recently received a high level of attention due to their wide applications in military and civilian operations.

Security for Wireless Sensor Networks discusses fundamental security issues in wireless sensor networks, techniques for the protection of such networks, as well as results from recent studies in wireless sensor network security. This volume assists both professionals and students to understand background knowledge in wireless sensor network security and prepare them for producing research in this domain.

Security for Wireless Sensor Networks is designed for a professional audience composed of researchers and practitioners in industry. This book is also suitable as a secondary text for graduate-level students in computer science.